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...sixth night of the coal strike, the President faced another ordeal: the first full-dress U.S. diplomatic dinner in seven years. The 90 guests used gold cutlery from McKinley's time, and china designed by Franklin Roosevelt. The dinner, with turkey as the main course, was called "a good American meal." Harry Truman, who dislikes white tie & tails, wore them well, was apparently at ease and smooth and amiable with the starchy, beribboned envoys. The diplomats agreed they had had a nice evening, and pretty informal, after...
Died. Gifford Pinchot, 81, opinionated oldtime Progressive Republican, pioneer conservationist and Forestry chief under McKInley, Roosevelt I and Taft (1898-1910), who helped found the Bull Moose Party in 1912 and, despite opposition by G.O.P. bosses, was twice elected Pennsylvania's governor (1923-27, 1931-35); of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, Harvard 1854, nephew of J.R.L., killed in action in 1864 at Cedar Creek, Va., an engagement in which Captain William McKinley and Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes also fought. Had Lowell survived, suggests Greenslet, he might have been a better bet for the White House than either, and "Massachusetts would have had a president midway between John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge...
...McKinley to Truman. In Lafayette, Ind., Spanish-American War Veteran Robert E. McCann, who had paid his way home from the Philippines in '99, finally got a Government travel check...
...guarded room aboard the Mount McKinley (flagship of Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy) Holloway faced a panel of numbered buttons. Each had to be pressed at a certain moment. Electronics did the rest. At the precise instant planned, Helen blew...